Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, 20 March 43 BC – Tomis, now Constanta AD 17) known as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations.
Ovid, painting by A. v. Werner
Ovid in the 15th century Nuremberg chronicle
Engraved frontispiece to a 1632 edition of Metamorphosis